Credit: christin hume / Linux / Modified by IDG Comm. There’s a lot more to identifying a Linux release than citing a simple version number. Even a quick look at the output from the uname command can ...

Linux is a pervasive operating system for good reason. It’s lightweight, flexible, open source, and supports multiple architectures, all of which present great opportunity to innovate and deliver ...

As the popularity of Linux continues to increase, so does its attack surface. For organizations, this brings to light a pressing question: Who is responsible for the security of all the Linux ...

Bug tracking is often one of the most difficult processes in software development. Users may have situations different from developers, and bugs that are a big problem for users may not even be ...

Will Linux protect you from ransomware attacks? Ransomware attacks are all the rage these days among hackers, and many people are worried about becoming victims. Are Linux users secure against such ...

If you’ve used Linux for a long time, you know that we are spoiled these days. Getting a new piece of hardware back in the day was often a horrible affair, requiring custom kernels and lots ...

Does anyone have any good pointers to a place to learn more about running linux as a desktop? Specifically the desktop - I currently use KDE, but am open to suggestions. I need a source (or sources) ...

The CPU is the part of the computer that makes everything else tick. While GPUs have increasingly become a key part of overall system performance, we still find ourselves wanting to know how our CPU ...

Over the past six months I have reviewed five minimal Linux distributions that are optimized for running containers: Alpine Linux, CoreOS Container Linux, RancherOS, Red Hat Atomic Host, and VMware ...

I often feel like I am really behind on what is going on in the world Linux. Some of the websites I used to peruse are all but stale now. I have been trying Twitter, but I find it to have an ...